The Philosophy Of Citizenship And National Education “Algeria As A Model”

Abstract

The topic of citizenship education is considered one of the most important topics and issues that quickly impose themselves when dealing with any dimension of development in the human sense. The goal of educating an individual on citizenship and its values is to produce a morally and behaviorally sound citizen who believes in human values and the culture of others and accepts them" intellectually, religiously... etc" . And here lies precisely the role of the school, which aims, through its educational curricula, to consolidate the concepts that express the national spirit, as well as the most important values and principles that cannot be separated from "citizenship" such as rights, duties, equality and solidarity by including them in the scheduled course content either in the form of images with clear meaning and significance, or in the form of "legal" constitutional articles, in addition to "educational" ministerial decrees. We based our previous conclusion on studying the Algerian civic education textbook starting from the first grade "the first year of primary school" until the ninth grade "the fourth year of middle school" in order to learn about the mechanism used and the most important topics that the Algerian school relied on in its dedication to the concept of citizenship in the spirit of the emerging individual. This study also came as an attempt to answer the following problem: What are the most important values and concepts related to citizenship included in the Algerian civic education curriculum?  To what extent does the civic education course contribute to the development of the dimensions of good citizenship in the spirit of the individual learner?